William Henry Delevati

William Henry Delevati has been the Chairman of the Board since June 2005 and has served as a director of the Company since October 1999. Mr. Delevati is currently the chairman of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit, Compensation and Employee Option Committees of the Board. 

Mr. Delevati has also served as a consultant to various companies located in the Silicon Valley area since April 2000. From October 1999 to April 2000, Mr. Delevati served as the Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of Aspect Communications Corporation, a provider of customer call center solutions. From November 1995 to April 1999, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Information Services for Quantum Corporation, a storage device company. From April 1995 to November 1995, Mr. Delevati was the Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President of MIS for Conner Peripherals, a storage device company. From September 1994 to April 1995, Mr. Delevati was the Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Worldwide MIS for Borland Corporation, a software tools company. From September 1993 to September 1994, he was the Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Worldwide MIS for Logitech, a computer peripheral device company. From December 1987 to September 1993, Mr. Delevati was the Director of Application Development and Global Information Resources for Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Bernhard Woebker

Bernhard Woebker has served as a director of the Company since June 2005 and was previously a director of the Company from June 1999 until the Company’s merger with Poet Holdings, Inc. in March 2004. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Versant, he is responsible for Versant’s global operations.

Mr. Woebker has served in various high level roles for the Company including Executive Vice President from January 1999 to July 2001. From March 1997 to January 1999, he served as the Company’s Vice President and General Manager in Europe. From 1994 to March 1997, he was the President of Versant Object Technology GmbH, an independently-owned distributorship for Versant products in Europe, which was acquired by Versant in March 1997.

Mr. Woebker has been a consultant to various investment banking and venture capital firms in Europe and the United States since late 1999.

From 1976 until 1994, Mr. Woebker held several positions in Germany and in the United States with Nixdorf Computer AG and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, including the position of President and CEO of Nixdorf Computer Engineering Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts from 1986 to 1989. Mr. Woebker has also served as Senior Vice President for Pyramid Technology Corp. in Europe and as Vice President for NeXT Computer, Inc. in Europe.

Mr. Woebker received a Masters of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Hannover.

Uday Bellary

Uday Bellary has served as a director of Versant and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors since July 2003 and is also a member of the Compensation, Nominating and Stock Buy-Back Committees of the Board.

From February 2010 to the present, Mr. Bellary has served as the Chief Financial Officer of GreenVolts, Inc., a privately-held company that develops and commercializes concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology for solar energy applications. From May 2007 to December 2009, Mr. Bellary served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Wortal, Inc., and is currently serving as its Chairman of the Board. Wortal, Inc. is a privately-held internet portal that focuses on entertainment, services, local activities, home needs, etc. accessible from the Internet and mobile platforms.

Mr. Bellary also previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Atrica, Inc., a privately-held optical Ethernet company, VL, Inc., a privately-held VoIP services company, Metro Optix, Inc., a privately-held provider of optical networking equipment and MMC Networks (a Public Company) from 1997 to 2008. Prior to that Mr. Bellary held senior level positions at Cirrus Logic & Intel Corporation.

Since July 2004, Mr. Bellary has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Backweb Technologies Ltd., a publicly held provider of software that enables mobile workers to access web-based applications, that is no longer a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Mr. Bellary received a B.S. degree in Finance, Accounting and Economics from Karnatak University and a DMA degree in Finance from the University of Bombay, India. Mr. Bellary is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Robert Brammer

Dr. Brammer is a noted technology and security expert and most recently was the Vice President for Advanced Technology and CTO of Northrop Grumman Information Systems. In this role, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy and Independent Research and Development (IRAD) programs, technology and research partnerships, technical talent development and intellectual property management. Dr. Brammer is also the President and CEO of Brammer Technology, LLC, a consultancy focusing on advanced information technology, environment and climate, and security.

Dr. Brammer holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He received achievement awards for work on the Apollo program and for principal investigator research on NASA and NOAA satellite remote-sensing programs. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers and the American Meteorological Society. He is also member of several other professional societies, including the IEEE, MAA, SIAM, SMPTE, and AGU.

Dr. Herbert May